Temporal Replication
Jenna Balfe with Abagael / Sound by Sticky Bunz
August 22nd, 2019
In collaboration with Miami Design District & Placeholder
Miami Design District in collaboration with Ground Control Miami and Placeholder present: Temporal Replication by Jenna Balfe with Abagael Mahoney and sounds by Sticky Bunz
Temporal Replication introduces the opportunity to create a performative environment on a site commonly intended for leisure and consumption. The site-specific performance, inspired by Urs Ficher’s public sculpture, Bus Stop, 2017, suggests viewers engage with space and place while allowing opportunities for dialogue between art, architecture, design, and performance.
Urs Fischer’s public sculpture, Bus Stop, 2017, commissioned for Miami Design District’s, Paradise Plaza, alludes to references of non-gendered, neutral culture via the reduced quality of the skeleton––a feeling of ‘uncontrollable-ness’ is implied by the constant drops on the head and the seemingly unintentional pool of water that remains on the ground. Working in reaction to Fischer’s commentary, Temporal Replication incorporates the site-specificity of Bus Stop, 2017, asking us to take a moment and accept both the humor and horror, in times largely experienced through the dissemination of media/consumption frenzy.
Miami-based band Sticky Bunz will perform alongside Balfe during the activation followed by a short set including the three artists.
